Rusty K. Grinnell

Rusty K. Grinnell, "The Catcher" is a Homid Hatar Agere (Myrmidon) Ananasi.

Biography

The Catcher started life as Rusty K. Grinnell in Huntsville, Texas. He was skinny, unpopular and more than a little weird. He didn't like the mandatory pastimes of football and beer. What he did like was killing bugs. Oh, his parents tried to get him to go hunting with the rest of the family, but he never cared for it. Where was the challenge with a gun? Any idiot can shoot a deer. Once, he made a trap out of barbed wire, but his father beat him and called him a "freak sissy-boy" for being "afraid of guns." After high school, Rusty worked for a local exterminator, and discovered his talent for it. He quickly became "The Vermin Slayer of Huntsville." At first, he used the traditional chemicals of the trade, but found it "lacked style" and constructed elaborate mechanism out of scrap he found in junkyards.

Then, his true nature emerged. He was a maker of traps, a spinner of webs, and an assassin for Queen Ananasa. He quickly developed a second career: as a killer for hire. He silently slips into his target's life, maintaining his pretense of being a hick bug-killer. He scouts out his target, catches them, and kills them. He prefers to construct elaborate traps, made of equal parts supernatural webbing and machinery made out of junk. Once the target is caught, he moves in for a quick, bloodless kill.

As part of his calling, he will take on assignments against all sorts of targets. His reputation has spread among the movers and shakers of society, and those who need difficult targets eliminated (including Pentex officials or vampires) frequently call him. Of course, he also has been known to refuse assignments (or do others for free) at the request of his spider-queen.

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The Catcher dresses in comfortable work clothes, though since his First Change, he dresses more neatly. He is tall and skinny. His blond hair is cut in a mullet and is almost always covered by a Texas Rangers baseball cap. He always wears sunglasses, and is rarely seen without a cigarette. He speaks with a thick, Texan drawl, which generally leads people to believe he is an idiot.

Stats

Breed: Homid
Faction: Hatar
Aspect: Agere (Myrmidon)
Physical: Strength 3 (6/7/0), Dexterity 2 (5/4/8), Stamina 4 (6/7/0)
Social: Charisma 4, Manipulation 3 (2/0/0), Appearance 2 (1/0/0)
Mental: Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 2
Talents: Alertness 2, Athletics 2, Dodge 3, Intimidation 1, Primal-Urge 3, Streetwise 4, Subterfuge 2
Skills: Animal Ken 3, Craft 5, Drive 2, Science 4 (chemistry), Stealth 4, Survival 3
Knowledges: Computer 2, Occult 2, Rituals 3
Backgrounds: Allies 2, Contacts 3, Fylfot 2, Resources 2
Gifts: Balance, Open Seal, Resist Pain, Resist Toxin, Web Haven, Silencing Webs, True Fear, Bug Lord, Weak Arm, Pulse of the Invisible
Rank: 3
Blood Pool: 10; Gnosis: 4; Willpower: 7
Rites: Guardians, Rite of Spinning
Fyflot: Web-Net (Level 2, Gnosis 6) - This Fylfot (fetish), which resembles an old-fashioned butterfly net, allows an Ananasi not only to generate webs while in Homid form, but can store up to 10 Blood Points worth of webbing in it.

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